US4151698A - Apparatus for filling cup-shaped containers with perishable products - Google Patents

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US4151698A
US4151698A US05/830,336 US83033677A US4151698A US 4151698 A US4151698 A US 4151698A US 83033677 A US83033677 A US 83033677A US 4151698 A US4151698 A US 4151698A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
    • B65B43/52—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using roller-ways or endless conveyors

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  • Our present invention relates to an apparatus for the automatic filling of cup-shaped containers with dairy products or other perishable substances.
  • Machines which automatically fill such cups and carry out ancillary operations, including the covering and sealing of the containers, on a mass-production basis with the aid of a conveyor having seats in the form of recesses designed to receive the containers and to move them past a number of operating stations which are synchronized with the conveyor motion.
  • These stations generally include a loading station depositing empty containers in the several recesses, a dispensing station introducing metered quantities of the product into each container moving past, a capping station supplying a lid to each filled container, and a sealing station for bonding the lid to the container.
  • the operating speed of a metering dispenser is limited by mechanical as well as fluidic considerations.
  • each station In order to increase the output rate of such an apparatus, therefore, it is the practice to let each station act concurrently upon a multiplicity of containers during every work cycle. For this purpose it is customary to arrange the container-receiving recesses of the conveyor in rows transverse to its direction of motion, each operating station serving all the recesses of a row aligned with it during a given work cycle. However, the length of each row and therefore the number of containers served in any cycle is also subject to physical restrictions.
  • the object of our present invention is to provide an improved apparatus of the type referred to whose output rate is substantially greater than that of generally similar machines of the prior art.
  • each operating section along the conveyor path coacts simultaneously during any work cycle, i.e. between consecutive conveyor steps, with a leading row and a trailing row of seats whereby the output rate is substantially double that of a conventional apparatus with a conveyor of the same width.
  • the two rows of an array are relatively staggered in the transverse or y direction by half a pitch, i.e. by half the center spacing of adjoining seats of a row.
  • the seats are circular recesses, as will generally be the case, such staggering allows the spacing of the centerlines of the two rows to be on the order of the diameter of a recess whereby the larger-diameter lids of a group of containers occupying the recesses of an array overlap one another in both the x and the y direction.
  • Each of the two rows may have the same number of seats though one row could also have one seat more than the other.
  • Each operating station may serve the two rows of a single array or leading and trailing rows of different arrays during a given work cycle, depending on the physical layout of the station.
  • a dispensing station designed to introduce a metered quantity of a product into any container aligned therewith usually requires more space than a loading station or a capping station supplying empty containers or lids therefore.
  • Either of the latter stations accordingly, can be built compact enough to serve a pair of adjoining rows, either on a single conveyor section or on two neighboring sections, during each cycle.
  • the dispensing station should have two parallel metering units so spaced apart in the x direction as to be simultaneously aligned, during each work cycle, with a leading row of seats of one conveyor section (e.g.
  • Our invention accordingly, affords a high degree of flexibility in the arrangement of the several operating stations with optimum utilization of the available space.
  • FIG. 1 is a side-elevational view of a container-filling apparatus according to our invention, including a conveyor and several operating stations;
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic plan view of the conveyor and other parts of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmentary plan view of the conveyor of FIG. 2, drawn to a larger scale and showing a number of sealed and date-stamped containers carried thereon.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 we have shown an apparatus 10 comprising an endless conveyor 11 longitudinally divided into a multiplicity of sections 12 in the form of rectangular plates carried by a pair of lateral sprocket chains 28 (see FIG. 3).
  • Each plate 12 extending with its major sides transversely to the direction x of conveyor motion, has an array of recesses 13 designed to receive individual cup-shaped containers 15 from respective hoppers of a loading station 14 disposed at the upstream end of the conveyor.
  • the recesses 13 of each array are divided into two parallel rows collectively designated D, i.e. a leading row D 1 and a trailing row D 2 , extending in the transverse direction y.
  • D i.e. a leading row D 1 and a trailing row D 2 , extending in the transverse direction y.
  • FIG. 2 we have shown five recesses 13 per row; in FIG. 3, for the sake of convenience, that number has been reduced to four. It will be understood, however, that each row could contain six or more rece
  • Conveyor 11 is intermittently advanced, via a transmission 32, by a driving unit 33 also linked by a shaft 34 with loading station 14 and other stations described hereinafter to synchronize their operation with the conveyor motion.
  • a driving unit 33 also linked by a shaft 34 with loading station 14 and other stations described hereinafter to synchronize their operation with the conveyor motion.
  • each of these operating stations is aligned with a leading row D 1 and a trailing row D 2 of recesses 13, though not necessarily of the same array as will presently become clear.
  • the length of a conveyor step equals the spacing s of homologous rows of adjoining sections 12.
  • the various operating stations of the apparatus 10 further include, downstream of loading station 14, a distributing or refilling station 16, a dispensing station 17, a capping station 19, a sealing station 21 and a printing station 23.
  • Distributing station 16 has two rows of outlets respectively registering with the ten recesses 13 of a leading row D 1 of an upstream section 12 and of a trailing row D 2 of an immediately adjoining downstream section, the spacing of these two rows of adjecent sections being somewhat greater than that of the rows of a single array as will be apparent from FIG. 3.
  • These outlets serve for the partial filling of the cups 15 inserted into the recesses aligned therewith, e.g. with a measured quantity of fruit syrup or preserves to be topped by a predetermined amount of yogurt.
  • station 16 may comprise a vessel communicating with the several outlets via respective rotary valves that are opened by the shaft 34 for a brief period during each work cycle.
  • Dispensing station 17 comprises two metering units 18', 18" each including a chamber which opens via respective check valves into a row of five conduits 29 communicating with respective individual dosing cylinders 30, each of these cylinders containing a membrane piston driven by shaft 34 through a linkage 31 to discharge a predetermined amount of yogurt via another check valve into a respective cup 15.
  • the outlets of the conduits 29 of the two units 18' and 18" are aligned, in each work cycle, with a leading row D 1 of an upstream conveyor section and a trailing row D 2 of a downstream conveyor section separated by three intervening sections (for the sake of simplicity, the recesses 13 of some of the conveyor sections 12 have been omitted in FIG. 2).
  • Capping station 19 has two sets of five hoppers each, similar to those of loading station 14, which carry stacks of lids 20 to be individually deposited upon the cups 15 of respective rows D 1 and D 2 of a single array during each work cycle.
  • Sealing station 21 includes a heated plate 22 which is vertically reciprocable to press upon the ten lids 20 of a group of cups 15 received in the recesses 13 of a single conveyor section 12 during any work cycle.
  • Printing station 23 comprises two date-stamping units 24', 24" which, during any work cycle, are aligned with a trailing row D 2 of an upstream section and a leading row D 1 of an immediately adjoining downstream section, each of these units comprising five sets of digit wheels 35 which swing past an associated ink pad 36 to print a terminal date upon the lids 20 of the respective cups.
  • these lids are of generally circular outline interrupted along one quadrant by a radially projecting tab 27 with a pair of orthogonal edges merging tangentially into the remainder of the circumference which extends over an arc of 270°.
  • the lids are so placed in the hoppers of station 19 that the tabs 27 of adjacent cups in rows D 1 and D 2 point in diagonally opposite directions.
  • stamping units 24' and 24" are relatively inverted; it should be noted that the two adjoining rows of neighboring sections 12 shown imprinted in FIG. 3 are not the ones simultaneously acted upon by units 24', 24".
  • a conventional unloading station 25 with ejector plates 26 which are periodically elevated by the driving unit 33 to lift the filled and sealed cups 15 of several oncoming conveyor sections 12 out of their recesses into the path of associated gripper arms, not shown, for transfer to a further destination.
  • an unloading cycle lasts for four work cycles to facilitate the operation of the gripper arms.
  • the vertical axes of the recesses 13 of adjoining rows D 1 , D 2 are offset in the transverse direction y by half the pitch p of successive recesses of the same row. That offset p/2 is less than the recess diameter 2r and only slightly greater than the radius R of the circular portion of the lid periphery; the separation q of the centerlines of rows D 1 and D 2 in the direction x is on the order of 2r but less than 2R (and therefore also less than p) whereby the lids 20 overlap one another in the direction x as well as in the direction y.
  • the edges of tabs 27 are parallel to these directions x and y and therefore also to one another.
  • the spacing s of homologous rows is a little greater than 2q.
  • the number of cups inserted, filled, sealed, stamped and discharged with ten recesses per row is almost 20,000 per hour. That number can be easily increased by enlarging the arrays.
  • the principles of our invention could, of course, be extended to arrays of more than two transverse rows of container seats, with corresponding modification of the associated operating stations to handle n ⁇ m containers per cycle where n is the number of seats per row and m is the number of rows per array.

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